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2.0 out of 5 stars
It had so much promise!, Sep 19 2004
The story: Emerald O'Brien, a divorced mother of two, opens a tea and china shop in the small town of Chiqetaw, WA. Emerald comes from a family with a long history of paranormal experience, and uses her tarot-reading skills in the tea shop.On the night Susan Mitchell dies, Emerald is startled but not frightened to see Susan standing at the foot of her bed. The unhappy spirit writes Emerald a note: "I was murdered by my husband, but nobody knows. Help me." I was disappointed in this book; I thought that Emerald's paranormal abilities and Susan's ghost might have been amusing plot twists if Emerald had then gone on to investigate the murder using more conventional detection methods. The woo-woo stuff takes over, however, and dominates the book. When Emerald's son Kip is possessed by a malevolent spirit, and Emerald and her daughter are threatened by the same entity, it turns into Poltergeist-in-print. Emerald spends about half the book trying to evict the nasty spook, who has nothing to do with the murder. I don't want to be a spoiler, but the explanation for the wording of Susan's "help me" note is ridiculous. There is already a second book out, "The Legend of the Jade Dragon", but I don't think I'll read it. I thought this would be just the kind of mystery I like, but I was disappointed!
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